Married To The Mad Vampire Lord novel Chapter 145

Chapter 145: Breakfast hall_Part 1

"When I saw you, I thought—I will give you the comfort I never had from people. I will make you not feel lonely like I am admist so many people. I thought we had things in common—cruel partners who make us miserable. Only for me to realize I was the only one."

Her voice quivered and shook as she continued, "Though people call your husband mad and insane, he seems to treat you well enough, more than I had expected, judging from how the rumors made him sound. You were excited to see him. He even walked you back to the chamber, while mine was busy having an affair with a vampire..."

She broke down and began to sob brokenly, and Belle sat up on the bed and turned to her.

Without hesitation this time, she moved closer and pulled the woman into a hug.

"I am sorry..." Evenly apologized as she hugged Belle back. "It’s just too much to bear that... I want to say the words out. He used to love me so much until I lost his child by accident. It was an accident—I slipped on the stairs. After that, he seemed to hate me because no baby wanted to stay within me anymore. I keep losing them, even when I was being careful. And now... now the doctor said unfortunately I can’t have a baby anymore. He hates me and blames me for everything...

"But I guess it’s my fault. If I wasn’t so clumsy, if I had been careful enough—oh Lord, I wish I had died with the baby..." she sobbed brokenly, and Belle stroked her back and whispered,

"It’s not your fault, Lady Clifton. You did not wish for the accident, and if he loves you enough, he would never blame you for it."

"I know...He doesn’t love me anymore. It hurts to know he doesn’t. He told me to smuggle and carry a case of gold coins from the house so the elder Lord Clifton wouldn’t see it because he wanted to give it to the vampire he has been seeing. The vampiress even approached me on my way here and told me very soon I would be thrown out of his house. I will be an embarrassment to my family if he throws me out.

"I can’t afford to not be married to him, and I tried to make Lady Cordelia understand that I will overlook their affairs if she did not make him leave me. She’s the worst of her kind—she laughed at me and called me a pathetic loser..."

Belle’s hand froze mid-stroke. "Lady Cordelia?" she asked, taken aback by the direction of things. Why was it always Cordelia trying to come between married couples?!

"Yes. She is having an affair with my husband. I don’t know when it started, but he seems to be head over heels for her—to the point he wants to give her a huge sum of money. Josh used to blame me for losing his sons, but he had never threatened to throw me out until he began his affair with the vampiress..."

It took a while for Belle to finally console Evenly, who had told her how she caught her husband kissing the vampiress earlier when she walked to where they were to meet. It was still a surprise to Belle that Cordelia would be interested in a human, when she had been pushing herself onto Rohan just days ago.

Could it be that she was doing it for the money? After all, her family had gone down in debt. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

Belle had not suggested nor advised Evenly to go back to her father’s house to spare herself the heartache, because she knew that would not help in this day and age. Falling out of marriage was the worst disgrace one could ever have on them—a stain that would forever remain, with people mocking you for it.

Some were never even accepted by their families again after falling out of marriage, and so Belle watched her words of advice carefully.

Though Nightbrook was different from Aragonia in many ways, the society’s way of thinking was similar. A woman only had power when she had a man, a husband.

Belle did only what she could, which was to listen and console.

They did not get to sleep for long, as they both talked through the night until dawn.

Belle felt like she had just closed her eyes when the bells of the castle began to ring to wake everyone up. It was finally the day of the hunt many had anticipated and trained for.

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